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    Poverty, wars, corruption, crimes, all of these are killing the peaceful creatures in the world. What is happening in our world today. Are not we humans after all, So why don 't we each other to overcome these three problems? My topic is going to speak about the poverty in Africa, and how can we overcome it. The stakeholders in my paper are going to be the poor people, and their governments. Poverty is the thing that dominates our world, and makes the people suffer. Every day the…

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    World Bank defines poverty as a deprivation in the well-being; saying that is the standard that permits a person to be able to maintain the capacity to have good health, to increase the possibility to have a good level of education or to have enough food. In opposite, side this can also be the definition of well-being adding that is instead to have the capacity and the resources to enjoy all does things; measured on the income of a person. (p527) Knowing the definition of poverty is not…

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    such as the poverty trap, war, and food wastage, tip the global balance of food distribution, resulting in hunger in various parts of the world. These practices can be, at best, corrected now if individuals, who care and have enough money, donate their money and change their consumer habits. As previously stated, many practices add to global hunger such as the poverty trap, war, and food wastage. Other…

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    living standards and such better in the United States, they were based on different things. First off, the Great Society was a response to prosperity, while the New Deal was a response to depression. Johnson’s Great Society proposed ways of reducing poverty and bettering America for its future, while FDR’s New Deal was an organized way of proposing a way to pull America out of the depression. The motives were slightly different from the start. Some of the things that Johnson’s Great Society…

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    food produced on this planet to feed those many people. With all that food, there is still “one person in eight” starving to the point of death and malnutrition. The reasons people are still starving on planet earth is due to the waste of food, poverty, war, climate, and lack of investment to agriculture. The biggest cause to world hunger is “one third of all the food produced” in the world is wasted. That is about 1.3 billion tons of food each year that goes straight to the trash can. Saving…

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    Rights states that “ everyone has the right to education” (UN). Is education the solution to Africa’s poverty? Several studies have linked lack of education as being one of the reasons for under -development in Africa. My essay is going to explore this notion and also other core issues that I felt were imperative for the development of Africa. The other matters I look into are Poor governance, Civil war and conflict, HIV/ AIDS. These issues once solved can be the foundation for success. It will…

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    citizen are living below the poverty line because the current minimum wage has not sustained with the increasing cost of living.…

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    government used most of the money on things that the country did not need. There is a severe shortage in medical supplies including medicine.citizens of Venezuela do not have a lot of rights they have health issues and are living in poverty. Venezuela is in poverty due to owing money to other countries. There is a severe shortage in medicine venezuela has tried talking to the united nations for help but could not get any help . In the hospitals there are people dying because they don't have…

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    Poverty is a common social issue that any nations have. The United States of America is not an exception; she also faced and fought to poverty for over years. As Ronald Reagan said “We fought a war on poverty and poverty won” (Edelman, 1), a struggle with poverty is that never ended. President Lyndon Johnson attempted to make sure that there was no more poverty in the U.S. He proposed a lot of policies to aim at fighting the poverty in our nation such as Social Security Amendments, The Food…

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    homelessness has plagued our country from its beginning. The widespread effects of this devastating issue affect over 500,000 Americans every night (Quigley). Two of the major contributing factors of homelessness in America are mental illness and poverty. Governments, churches, and private organization try to remedy these problems. Many people who suffer from being homeless also suffer from a mental illness. Because they suffer from a mental illness, it restricts them from holding a job. It…

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